Station Guide In Back Of Tv Book

TJ Q&A

Why did you stop publishing the addresses of TV networks in the book? People need this to express their opinions. - Wayne Marland, Pompano Beach

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We didn't stop. We just moved it to the back of the book, opposite the crossword puzzle. We would never take it out because as regular readers of this column know, I DO NOT DO ADDRESSES!

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We are trying to fight crime yet movies that glorify it, such as Prizzi's Honor and The Cotton Club, are shown on TV in the afternoon. Films like these should be taken off the air. - W.K., Boca Raton

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Right, and when we finish doing that, we can start working on medical dramas. Maybe if we get rid of those, people will stop getting sick and dying. TV doesn't kill people; people kill people.

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I have watched Willard Scott for years. He always had a tremendous gut. Now, after going on the Ultra Slim Fast diet, he has become a male Twiggy. I went on a hospital-supervised diet and lost 60 pounds and five inches off my waist but my old protrusion still hangs. He must have used a chainsaw. - Sol Goldfarb, Margate

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There are ways less drastic than a chainsaw to remove old flab. I don't know what Willard did but you can be sure that the Ultra Slim Fast people made every technique available to him. The key is to see what he looks like in a year or two. Check out Tom LaSorda.

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Is there anything we can do to get more game shows on the air in place of all the stupid daytime talk shows? We senior citizens need them to keep occupied. - A.G., Deerfield Beach

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What happened to shuffleboard and condo politics? Game shows were replaced by talk shows because more people watched the freaks and geeks than the Q. and A.'s.

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We watched the movie The Kid From Left Field on the AMC cable network. In it, there was a young lady who looked like Anne Bancroft but she was not in the credits. Was she in the movie? - M. Diamond, Plantation

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Anne Bancroft starred opposite Dan Dailey in the 1953 edition of The Kid From Left Field. It was remade for TV in 1979 starring Gary Coleman, Robert Guillaume and Ed McMahon.

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I enjoy The X-Files on Fox. Could you tell me more about David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson? Also what are Fox's plans for The X-Files? - Jose Monroy, Fort Lauderdale

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Don't sweat those rankings each week that show The X-Files down near the bottom of the Nielsen charts. The X-Files is generating much bigger ratings, with more desirable demographics, than any show Fox has ever had on Friday. It is all but certain to be back next season. Duchovny is a native New Yorker and single. Two of his major roles were in kinky productions. He was a transvestite detective in Twin Peaks and co-starred opposite Mimi Rogers in the theatrical movie The Rapture. He also played in Beethoven, Chaplin and Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead. Anderson is also from New York and single. Her credits are extremely limited; a TV movie called The Turning and an episode of Class of '96.

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Years ago, Bill Cosby was on Donahue. Bill said he never liked All in the Family because he didn't learn anything from it. Phil responded that there were no lessons in I Spy, either. Cosby said there were, that the white man carried the gun. In the return of I Spy, I saw Cosby with a gun. At 72, I must have a better memory than Cosby. I'm wondering if you will ever print this letter. - Gloria Olson, Boca Raton